TY - JOUR
T1 - Reward sensitivity, impulse control, and social cognition as mediators of the link between childhood family adversity and externalizing behavior in eight countries
AU - Lansford, Jennifer E.
AU - Godwin, Jennifer
AU - Bornstein, Marc H.
AU - Chang, Lei
AU - Deater-Deckard, Kirby
AU - Di Giunta, Laura
AU - Dodge, Kenneth A.
AU - Malone, Patrick S.
AU - Oburu, Paul
AU - Pastorelli, Concetta
AU - Skinner, Ann T.
AU - Sorbring, Emma
AU - Steinberg, Laurence
AU - Tapanya, Sombat
AU - Alampay, Liane Peña
AU - Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria
AU - Al-Hassan, Suha M.
AU - Bacchini, Dario
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant RO1-HD054805, Fogarty International Center Grant RO3-TW008141, and the Jacobs Foundation. This research was also supported by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH/NICHD.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017.
PY - 2017/12/1
Y1 - 2017/12/1
N2 - Using data from 1,177 families in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States), we tested a conceptual model of direct effects of childhood family adversity on subsequent externalizing behaviors as well as indirect effects through psychological mediators. When children were 9 years old, mothers and fathers reported on financial difficulties and their use of corporal punishment, and children reported perceptions of their parents' rejection. When children were 10 years old, they completed a computerized battery of tasks assessing reward sensitivity and impulse control and responded to questions about hypothetical social provocations to assess their hostile attributions and proclivity for aggressive responding. When children were 12 years old, they reported on their externalizing behavior. Multigroup structural equation models revealed that across all eight countries, childhood family adversity had direct effects on externalizing behaviors 3 years later, and childhood family adversity had indirect effects on externalizing behavior through psychological mediators. The findings suggest ways in which family-level adversity poses risk for children's subsequent development of problems at psychological and behavioral levels, situated within diverse cultural contexts.
AB - Using data from 1,177 families in eight countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States), we tested a conceptual model of direct effects of childhood family adversity on subsequent externalizing behaviors as well as indirect effects through psychological mediators. When children were 9 years old, mothers and fathers reported on financial difficulties and their use of corporal punishment, and children reported perceptions of their parents' rejection. When children were 10 years old, they completed a computerized battery of tasks assessing reward sensitivity and impulse control and responded to questions about hypothetical social provocations to assess their hostile attributions and proclivity for aggressive responding. When children were 12 years old, they reported on their externalizing behavior. Multigroup structural equation models revealed that across all eight countries, childhood family adversity had direct effects on externalizing behaviors 3 years later, and childhood family adversity had indirect effects on externalizing behavior through psychological mediators. The findings suggest ways in which family-level adversity poses risk for children's subsequent development of problems at psychological and behavioral levels, situated within diverse cultural contexts.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579417001328
DO - 10.1017/S0954579417001328
M3 - Article
C2 - 29162175
AN - SCOPUS:85042228519
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 29
SP - 1675
EP - 1688
JO - Development and Psychopathology
JF - Development and Psychopathology
IS - 5
ER -